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Volume 1, Issue 4, October - December 2015

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Global warming and climate change have already set in and even the semi-literate farmers are being able to realise that the weather conditions are becoming abnormal. Last year, there was a delay in monsoon and several states in the country particularly Maharashtra, had to encounter severe drought. Subsequently, unexpected hail storms and heavy rains during spring season caused extensive damage to standing crops. This year again, the rainfall is expected to be below normal. Apart from the volume, timely distribution of rainfall will also affect agricultural production. This phenomenon is likely to continue. As the food security of 1.2 billion people is threatened by erratic monsoon, there is an urgency to prepare a climate resilient cropping system on priority. Supply of safe drinking water is another serious problem related to climate change (Ref: Narayan G Hegde. Climate resilient agriculture for food security. Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 260-261); (Image: http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/).

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Communications

”Food security and climate change” - opening remarks

Kirit N Shelat

Objective is to ensure food and nutrition security, worldwide. Need to make sure that enough food is accessible to everyone, everywhere, physically and economically. Between now and 2050, the world’s population will increase by one-third. Most of the additional 2 billion people will live in developing countries and more people will be living in cities.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 249-257

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Role of Public Governance in Arena of Climate Change and Food Security

Devi Prasad Juvvadi

Climate change, explored in various settings, is adding a new layer of complexity for food security from governance perspective. Changes in production capacity, seasonality, the availability of suitable land and access to water, are all intertwined with issues of governance. It is a fact that the climate is changing and, given the levels of greenhouse gases already in atmosphere, will continue to do so.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 258-259

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Climate resilient agriculture for food security

Narayan G Hegde

Global warming and climate change have already set in and even the semi-literate farmers are being able to realise that the weather conditions are becoming abnormal. Last year, there was a delay in monsoon and several states in the country particularly Maharashtra, had to encounter severe drought.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 260-261

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Ensuring food security and effective climate Change mitigation through intensive community LED NRM interventions in the tribal regions of Western India

Kanhaiya Choudhary

65 Local rivers and rivulets have been made perennial and 5 more are in the process of becoming perennial. Floriculture on small piece of land means surety for about 10 fold income compared to traditional crop.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 262-291

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Presentations

Sustainable Food Value Chain

Kirit Shelat

The application of the sustainable and inclusive food value chain approach directly links to Climate Smart Agriculture. Value is captured and determined by consumers when they buy the product, which trickles down to production and support provider levels. In developing countries middle- man-traders who also act as a wholesaler / take away major portion of income – difference between price paid to farmer and market price paid by consumers.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 292-350

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Food Security in Volatile Climate: Role of Weather Index Insurance

Piyush Kumar Singh

Food security exists when all people at all times have physical or economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The impacts of a given weather event differ according to the specific agricultural system, variable water balances, type of soil and crop, and availability of other risk management tools.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 351-371

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Food Security through Climate Resilient Agriculture Rukmavati River Basin

Kantisen Shroff

It is a process of coordinating conservation, management and development of water, land and related resources across sectors within a given river basin. It ensures Economic, Social and Environmental sustainability and ensures Food, Water & Energy security along with good quality of life with objective to provide sustainable livelihood.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 372-385

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Perspectives

Climate change - Research, Mitigation and Adaptive Opportunities for Indian Agriculture

Shankar MA, Prasanna Kumar MK, Thimmegowda MN, Shivaramu HS

Climate change is looming large on the globe. Food security is one of the key issues that inevitably needs to be resolved under the specters of climate change, particularly in the fragile ecosystems. Never before in the history has Indian agriculture been as vulnerable and uncertainty ridden as it is today.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 386-390

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Reforming Agricultural Extension to Meet Climate Change Risks

Pathak AR

Climate change refers to any change in climate overtime, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity (inter-governmental panel on climate change, IPCC, 2001). It can also be seen as change in climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activities that alter the composition of the global atmosphere and which are in addition to natural variability observed over comparable time periods (IPCC, 2007).

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 391-396

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Analysis

Economic and environmental benefits of roof insulation in composite climate of India

Hemant Kumar Singh, Ravi Prakash, Shukla KK

From the view point of energy conservation in the built environment, thermal insulation is the most common and effective technique. In India, most of the air conditioned residential buildings have either little or no insulation at all. In this study, optimum insulation thickness (OIT) for extruded polystyrene insulation (XPS) material employed on reinforced cement concrete are determined for composite climatic zones of India.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 397-403

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GIS: an effective tool to develop resilience to climate change

Neha Singla, Ankit Rattan, Navrit Bhandari

Average temperature of the our planet has risen by 1.4°F over the past century. This rise in global temperatures have been accompanied by changes in weather and climate in the form of changes in rainfall, floods, droughts, or intense rain, as well as more frequent and severe heat waves.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 404-410

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Nonlinear time series analysis of rainfall over central Indian region using CMIP5 based climate model

Anurag Tiwari, Ashok Kumar Mittal, Suneet Dwivedi, Uday Pratap Singh

In present study, nonlinear time series analysis is employed to examine the predictability and existence of chaos in the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) over central Indian region using Intergovernmental Panel on the Climate Change (IPCC) Coupled Model Inter-comparision Project 5 (CMIP5) models and observations from the India Meteorological Department (1901-2006) for central Indian region.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 411-417

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Evaluation of the meteorological drought over the Bundelkhand region using geo-spatial techniques

Kundu A, Denis DM, Patel NR

Drought is a climate based natural hazard occurs in almost all climatic zones irrespective of high or low rainfall areas. Generally, drought is considered as a dry weather condition that lasts over several weeks to months, with no or little rainfall. It happens due to imbalance in water availability.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 418-424

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Southern ocean sea-ice variability around the Indian Antarctic stations in the context of climate change using ocean sea-ice modelling

Anurag Kumar, Suneet Dwivedi

The role of sea-ice physics on ocean state estimate in the Southern Ocean (SO) region [90E-780E and 500S-720S] is demonstrated using ocean sea-ice modeling. It is shown that the sea-ice plays an important role in seasonal variability of the salinity and temperature. The sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface salinity (SSS) around the Indian Antarctic stations is computed and their seasonal variability is studied during 2008-2012.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 425-431

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Climate change and its impact on the ecological system of the Indian Sundarban region

Guha P, Aitch P, Bhandari G

The Sundarban is a part of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta spanning across an area of about 25,500 Km2 over southern Bangladesh and West Bengal out of which about 9,630 km2 forms Indian Sundarban Delta (ISD). This region is within the Central Asian shorebird flyway and the only mangrove wetland tiger habitat in the world.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 432-438

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Teleconnections of monsoon with ENSO, IOD and IMI from ECMWF model with reference to climate change: a statistical approach

Nishant Mishra, Shailendra Rai

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) System 3 coupled data for the time domain 1961-2007 is used in this study. We tried to investigate the observed teleconnections of ISMR with ENSO, IOD and IMI and its predictability from the ECMWF System 3 coupled model.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 439-446

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Seasonal prediction of ISMR and relationship with EL-NINO and IOD in ECMWF system 4 coupled model

Dhruva Kumar Pandey, Shailendra Rai, Shahi NK, Nishant Mishra

This study evaluates various probable factors that govern the predictability of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) and their teleconnections with ISMR. Furthermore, extensive analysis has been performed to evaluate factors leading to the predictability aspects of the ISMR using European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) System 4 coupled model for the time domain 1982-2013.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 447-455

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Can every farm get water? The present crisis and the roadmap towards the solution

Vivek P Kapadia

Recently an announcement has been made in India – “Water to Every Farm” which sounds beautiful but can it come true easily in the given situation? Does India have really geared up for the same? How can the gap between the attractive slogan and the present scenario be bridged up is of great concern. Many examples of mismanagement in various parts of the word are eye-opener.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 456-462

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Soil carbon sequestration enhancement techniques: an emergent technology to mitigate climate change

Kumari P, Nema AK

The purpose of this paper is to review the various techniques and methodologies related to increase the residence time of carbon in soil by enhancing carbon intake rate and reducing the soil respiration rate. The uptake and loss of carbon by land plants and soils were closely balanced before human intervention but due to ignorance of various factors according to Schlesinger (1997) the global flux of CO2 from soil has become approximately 75*1015gC/yr, roughly 2.5 times larger than the total Net Primary Productivity (NPP) of carbon in soil.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 463-468

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Seasonal prediction skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall in ECMWF system 4 model

Namendra Kumar Shahi, Shailendra Rai, Dhruva Kumar Pandey, Nishant Mishra

This study evaluates the seasonal prediction skill for the summer monsoon rainfall (JJAS) over India from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) System 4 Model for the time domain of 1982-2013. The model overestimates the precipitation over the Indian Ocean, maritime continent, west-coast and some part of the Indian land point and underestimates the precipitation over the northeastern part of India.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 469-475

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Groundwater flow modeling in a part of Ganga-Yamuna Interfluve region

Prabhakar Shukla, Raj Mohan Singh

Groundwater is the main source of water supply and irrigation in the Ganga-Yamuna interfluve region. Heavy withdrawal of groundwater has set a declining trend of water table over the decade. The groundwater withdrawal is continuously on the rise resulting in overexploitation and also quality deterioration.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 476-482

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Role of air pollutants emitted from coal power plant and meteorology in climate change

Ganesh Chandra Kisku, Markandeya

Coal, a fossil fuel is the largest source of energy for the generation of electricity in India. The total of 301.56 billion tonnes of coal reserves is estimated by the Geological Survey of India as of April 1st, 2014. It was mined at 229 million tonnes in year 2013, ranking 4th largest coal producing nation in the world.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 483-490

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Effect of global climate change on groundwater resources using geostatistics and linear regression method

Chandan Kumar Singh, Yashwant B Katpatal

Groundwater is one of the important natural resources useful for irrigation, drinking, industries etc. Groundwater usage is increasing day by day and to prepare the long term management strategy for groundwater development, it is important to understand the past groundwater level scenario.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 491-497

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Climate change and social justice

Amruta Smit Thakkar

Climate change is an issue of social justice, particularly for developing countries like India. Being a developing country, while formulating the policies and implementation strategies for adaption and mitigation of climate change, we must not divert our developmental goals such as health, poverty, energy access and education.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 498-502

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Wintertime source-apportionment of PM1 from Kanpur in the Indo-Gangetic plain

Prashant Rajput, Anil Mandaria, Lokesh Kachawa, Dharmendra Kumar Singh, Amit Kumar Singh, Tarun Gupta

In today’s scenario of increasing anthropogenic emissions, arising due to development in urban and rural areas, it has been widely realized to assess the atmospheric impact of various sources. In this context, we investigated the source contribution of ambient fine-mode aerosols (PM1; n = 51) during wintertime (mid of November 2009 to February 2010) over Kanpur site in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP). PM1 mass concentration centers at 113 µg m-3.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 503-507

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Impact of climate change on water resources

Saumya Singh, Srivastava RK

In many developing countries, there is a problem of water crisis. Climate change is adversely affecting the water cycle and in turn affecting water management. Increasing population, urbanization and climate change will put much pressure on water resources in future. Therefore, integrated water management will be required for sustainable management of water resource.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 508-513

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Proceedings of NCCSD

Summary Proceedings and Recommendations: National Workshop on Food Security and Climate Change Anand Agricultural University Anand, Gujarat

NCCSD, AAU, IFPRI

The rising atmospheric temperature, widening variability in monsoons, and increasing frequency of floods and droughts in recent past are the major challenges today. The ensuing climate change has started showing its impact on agricultural productivity and is posing a threat to the food and nutritional security globally and more so for a developing economy like India. Over the years, the importance of understanding the impact of climate change on agriculture has been often underestimated.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(4), 514-530

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